Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming
Having had the honor to spend nineteen years in your service as resident Land Agent—having during that period, as well as since, received from you many marks of favour—having on your Estate laid the foundation, and to some extent tested the accuracy, of the opinions which are...
Having had the honor to spend nineteen years in your service as resident Land Agent—having during that period, as well as since, received from you many marks of favour—having on...
2. Part 2Having attained this object, the woodman will then anxiously employ the best means in his power, for encouraging the growth of the underwood, so far as, at least, to _keep it al...
3. Part 3Pruning is also a very necessary operation in Ancient Woods, both of the oak and of the underwood. I shall not here enter upon an inquiry into _the general question of pruning_,...
4. Part 4It is at present, almost universally, a _Scotch Fir Plantation_: these are of a most miserable size, compared with what they might have been, under good management, and they are...
5. Part 5A Plantation which should be subjected, at so early a stage of its existence as ten or fifteen years, to the ordeal of both these classes of errors, could have but little chance...
6. Part 6If a Nobleman or Gentleman merely suffered his timber to stand _beyond maturity_ in the neighbourhood of his house, or on the domain where his mansion stood, however extensive i...
7. Part 7If Hedge-row Trees are to succeed at all, they must have a _good start_; and if they are to have a _good start_, there must, of necessity, be some trouble bestowed in the prepar...